All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.